Other things I was involved in were taking different types of drugs and I often got drunk. I had a motorbike and was a leader of three gangs. I also liked to steal cars and was locked up by the police many times for other criminal offences.

The occult was a generational problem in my family, and since the age of five I was able to see into the spirit realm. This was the result of a demonic spirit appearing to me one day at that age, and another consequence of that day, was that if anyone gave me a wrapped present, I would automatically know exactly what was in it without opening it.

I hated everyone, and didn't know how to love. I only believed that Satan "loved" me because Satan gave me what I wanted, but of course I was very deceived. At times I was so demonised that I could hardly walk, and people used to think I was drunk.

One day I was walking along a road at a place where I used to go quite a lot. I knew I needed help and called out to many gods including Satan and Buddha. I said, "Will you help me? I really need help." But as I was walking I started to hear a voice I did not recognise. The voice said, "If you call out to me I will heal you", and I said, "Who are you, which spirit are you?" Then I asked Satan for power to understand the source of the voice. The voice then said to me, "I am Jesus, I am the God who created heaven and earth." And I laughed and said, "It can't be Jesus because Jesus is not God, I don't believe in the bible, I hate the bible."

Sometime after this, about a year, I went to a meeting and I thought it was going to be a heavy metal band (that was my kind of music). But it was actually an evangelist appearing at this meeting which I hadn't known about. As the evangelist started preaching I wanted to kill him, and people were trying to get me out of the meeting because I started smashing the place up.

I used to have really good answers for people, but this guy had better answers than me, and that just added to the anger I already had. I was determined to kill the guy, and I thought, "Who does he think he is?" I didn't admit it to anyone then, but Jesus did speak to me at that time. Jesus said to me, "I'm calling you", and I replied, "I'm not interested, I hate Christians they are hypocrites." There was a difference in the way the voice spoke to me, it was as if the voice was speaking directly to my heart yet audible, whereas I was used to demonic spirits speaking directly to my mind.

Because I was so demonised I used to take knives, put them in boiling hot water and then cut myself. If you are demonised you will do anything no matter how crazy it is. On one occasion I stabbed myself with a martial arts knife which made me unable to go to a training session, so I ended up going to another meeting which turned out to have another evangelist. God spoke to me during the meeting and His power over me was so great that I was really struggling with feelings and emotions - not wanting to become a Christian but at the same time not wanting my life to remain in such a mess.

 
At the end of the meeting I renounced Satan and committed my life to Jesus Christ. I knew then that something had happened and that God had accepted me, and that my name had been put in a book which the preacher had referred to as the Lamb's Book of Life.

If it wasn't for Jesus Christ I wouldn't be here now at the time of writing, because I blasphemed God and rebelled against Him. Before I was a Christian I worshipped Satan, and one result of this was that I hated my parents and wanted to kill them. I had so much anger towards them and I hated everyone, especially Christians, because of my involvment in many of the occults: Satanism, witchcraft, wicca, pyramidology, and Buddhism. I even had an altar in my house and I worshipped many gods. I was often involved in enticing people to worship Satan, but unfortunately many of these people are now dead through motorbike accidents or suicide.

Jesus took away my oppression - some of it was immediate and some of iit happened over a period of time - all the drugs and everything I was trooubled with, including seeing into the spirit realm and being bothered by many occultic practices.

How good is God who sets us free! I know that Jesus Christ is alive and nothing can stop me believing now. No doctor or spirit could set me free, only Jesus Christ who died on the cross for our sins.

John 8:32 says, "You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free" and in John 14:6 Jesus Christ said, "I am the truth." If you will know Jesus Christ as Lord then you will know freedom from evil bondage!

"God makes the vilest offender clean, nothing is impossible for God." - Charles Wesley

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